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Megan Neil
AAP
Prayers couldn’t help Gerald Ridsdale, he needed jail or castration, a psychiatrist says.
Hard-core sexual deviants like pedophile priest Ridsdale had significant personality disorders, had no concept of empathy and were masters of deception, former Franciscan priest and psychiatrist Dr Peter Evans said.
“They are far more difficult to treat. They need to be in jail,” Dr Evans told the child abuse royal commission.
If the hard-core deviants were not in jail they would need medical castration, the use of medication to suppress their sexual drive for as long as it took for them to learn to control their behaviour, he said.
“It’s very difficult to treat them out of jail. It’s almost impossible to stop them acting out.”
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